One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

The Buddha's teaching is a middle way between all extremes, between eternalism and annihilationism, between self-indulgence and self-torture.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

The knowledge of dissolution comes when you see both the noting mind and noted object dissolving together.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

Not by hatred is hatred conquered, but by love alone. This is an eternal law.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

When we rest in awareness, we discover a peace that is always present, regardless of circumstances.

The key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Enlightenment is not the end of change but the end of resistance to change.

The measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have - it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.